The so called Smart Grid is said to be distributed in nature with an accompanying control architecture which is made up of a heterogeneous network of controllers communicating in a peer-to-peer manner. The paper proposes a novel computer-aided model-based system engineering process for the design of a Smart Grid applications from the initial design specification through to the validation of the...

The service capacities of a source peer at different times in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network exhibit temporal correlation. Unfortunately, there is no analytical resultwhich clearly characterizes the expected download time from a source peer with stochastic and time-varying service capacity. The main contribution of this paper is to analyze the expected file download time in P2P networks with stoc...

Improving software quality remains a key challenge. Software development formal peer inspection has emerged as an effective approach to address this challenge. Software peer inspection aims at detecting and removing software development defects efficiently and early while defects are less expensive to correct. The key research issue is to develop an architecture that supports the “systematic” p...

Mental health service users (MHSUs) have elevated rates of cardiometabolic disturbance. Improvements occur with physical activity (PA) programs. We report the development and evaluation of three innovative peer-developed and peer-led PA programs: 1) walking; 2) fitness; and 3) yoga. Qualitative evaluation with 33 MHSUs in British Columbia, Canada, occurred. These programs yielded improvements f...

Evidence supports peer learning in clinical settings, but it has not been studied obstetric units. In Sweden, units are a challenging area for student midwives because of the lack attention to needs and stress attaining final number 50 assisted births. To explore how experienced during placement an unit. Qualitative approach. Three hospitals Stockholm, Sweden. Fifteen peer-learning model placem...

This paper attempts to review the impacts of single parenting, it’s factors versus peer groups and its on students’ academic performance in Biology, research objectives such as investigating differences achievement between kids raised by co-parents those parents, gaps single-parent students who are male female, determining how much a student's group affects their achievement, if children parent...

abstractin the present study, attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of peer and teacher scaffolding in reading comprehension of intermediate efl students in symmetrical and asymmetrical groups. to do so, sixty intermediate students were purposively selected out of 150 intermediate students in hamadan islamic azad university and kish language institute in hamadan. they were divided ...

Can perceptions of equal treatment buffer the negative effects of threat on the school success of minority students? Focusing on minority adolescents from Turkish and Moroccan heritage in Belgium (Mage  = 14.5; N = 735 in 47 ethnically diverse schools), multilevel mediated moderation analyses showed: (a) perceived discrimination at school predicted lower test performance; (b) experimentally man...